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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in online education are empowering students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a variety of topics that online education institutions are having to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like France to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

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